How to Succeed as a Strength and Conditioning Coach
As a strength and conditioning coach, your role is to help clients achieve their fitness goals by developing personalized workout plans...
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nolanfogleman
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Exercise Tips for Training Older Clients
As a personal trainer, you will likely work with clients of all ages, including older adults. As people age, their bodies undergo changes...
nolanfogleman
- Jan 28
- 2 min
Building a High Profit, High Impact Personal Training Program
Personal training is a lucrative and growing industry, providing a unique opportunity to help people achieve their fitness goals while...
nolanfogleman
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Red Flags Personal Trainers Should Look Out for in Clients
Personal trainers play an important role in helping people achieve their fitness goals. However, it's important for trainers to be aware...
nolanfogleman
- Oct 27, 2022
- 3 min
The Different Niches of Fitness Training
To find success early on as a personal trainer, finding a niche can be very helpful. A niche is a target market segment. Finding your...
nolanfogleman
- Oct 14, 2022
- 5 min
Should I Be an Employee or Personal Contractor?
One of the benefits of being a personal trainer is the flexibility you have in where and how you work. A big choice in this profession is...
nolanfogleman
- Oct 6, 2022
- 3 min
Helping Your Clients Overcome Gym Anxiety
For regular gym-goers, the gym may be a place for stress relief or personal time. For others though, it isn’t necessarily a place where...
nolanfogleman
- Sep 22, 2022
- 3 min
How To Be a Successful Trainer in Any Economic Condition
Fitness and training is not something that people typically stop when the economic climate changes. The stock market doesn’t affect...
nolanfogleman
- Sep 15, 2022
- 3 min
Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Clients
When you really get down to it, personal training is a customer service industry. How you interact with clients influences how successful...
nolanfogleman
- Sep 7, 2022
- 3 min
More Effective Communication as a Personal Trainer
Communication is the main tool for all teachers, educators, and trainers. It’s a skill that’s required to develop strong client...
nolanfogleman
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
Do I Need a Degree to be a Personal Trainer?
Technically, a college degree is not something you need to become a successful personal trainer. The only thing you should get is a...
nolanfogleman
- Aug 12, 2022
- 2 min
Basal Metabolic Rate
Many trainers overlook the importance of BMR, oftentimes because of a lack of understanding. BMR is Basal Metabolic Rate – which means...
nolanfogleman
- Jul 20, 2022
- 3 min
How to Manage Muscle Soreness and Joint Pain
Sometimes we have soreness or stiffness that shows up a couple days after working out or doing physical exercise. This soreness and...
nolanfogleman
- Jun 21, 2022
- 2 min
Tips for Preventing Lifting Injuries
Resistance training can be dangerous if not done properly. These are some best practices for helping ensure you’re being safe and smart...
nolanfogleman
- Jun 11, 2022
- 2 min
Myths About Stretching
Stretching is one of those things that everybody knows what it is, but maybe not too much about the ins and outs of it and the myths and...
nolanfogleman
- Apr 28, 2022
- 3 min
Questions You Should Be Asking New Clients
As your clients’ trainer, it’s your job to provide them with a plan that will help them reach their goals. Please note that these...
nolanfogleman
- Apr 22, 2022
- 3 min
How to Train Your Clients to Breathe Better
Whether your clients are out-of-shape or long-time exercisers, everyone can get value from learning how to breathe better. What is...
PFTA-Austin
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
Making Money as a Personal Trainer
The basic idea of being a personal trainer is simple: learn the trade, attain clients, get paid. In reality, it can be much harder to put...
PFTA-Austin
- Feb 24, 2022
- 3 min
Do I Need a Certification to be a Personal Trainer?
Have you considered being a personal trainer? Perhaps you have looked into being a personal trainer – and have thought: “do I need to get...
PFTA-Austin
- Mar 27, 2021
- 3 min
Working with Clients who have Pre-existing medical conditions
One of the biggest reasons I got into the fitness industry was to help people and part of that was those with pre-existing medical...
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